Latest Gun Liability Headlines

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Las Vegas Shooting Victim’s Parents Sue Gunmakers Over Guns Altered by Bump-Stocks

Jul 8 2019 // The parents of one of the 58 people slain in a 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting sued the makers and sellers of the assault-style rifles used in the attack, saying they knew the weapons could be jury-rigged to work similarly to...

NRA to Halt ‘Unlawful Solicitation’ of Carry Guard in California

May 20 2019 // The National Rifle Association has agreed to stop soliciting insurance in California without a license, and made changes to its website and member communication materials to address allegations in a 2018 cease and desist...

Rock Band Sues Colorado Brewery Over ‘Guns ‘N’ Rose’ Beer

May 13 2019 // The rock band Guns N’ Roses is accusing a Colorado brewery of piggybacking off their fame to sell beer and merchandise.The band filed a trademark infringement lawsuit Thursday against Colorado-based Oskar Blues...

NRA Loses One Round Against New York Over Insurance Program

May 13 2019 // A National Rifle Association lawsuit accusing New York’s financial regulator of wrongfully investigating marketing of NRA-branded insurance products in the state suffered a setback on Friday.Senior U.S. District...

NRA Accuses New York of Obstructing Its Suit Over Shutdown of Insurance Program

May 13 2019 // The National Rifle Association accused a New York regulator of obstructing efforts by the gun-rights group to obtain communications between the state and Lloyd’s of London, which last year stopped underwriting...

Shootout with California Insurance Department Yet Another Headache for the NRA

May 10 2019 // Controversy has swirled around the National Rifle Association of late.Infighting that led to the ouster of Oliver North as the group’s president, its tenuous financial landscape and an investigation launched by the...

Texas Legislation Would Allow More Armed School Personnel

May 8 2019 // Nearly a year after a mass shooting at a Texas high school in which eight students and two substitute teachers were killed, lawmakers in the gun-friendly state are close to passing new measures that they say would harden...

NRA Challenges New York’s Attempt to Block Deposition of Regulator

May 3 2019 // The National Rifle Association is challenging renewed efforts by New York state officials to prevent a former regulator from being questioned under oath by the gun-rights group, the latest spat in a legal dispute over an...

NRA to Halt ‘Unlawful Solicitation’ of Carry Guard in California

May 1 2019 // The National Rifle Association has agreed to stop soliciting insurance in California without a license, and made changes to its website and member communication materials to address allegations in a 2018 cease and desist...

Wisconsin Court: Gun Sales Website not Liable in Spa Shooting

May 1 2019 // The Wisconsin Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit alleging a firearms website that enabled a man to illegally purchase the pistol he used in a mass shooting at a suburban Milwaukee spa six years ago is liable in the...

Suits Against Gun Seller Tied to Kansas Business Shootings Settled for $2M

Apr 22 2019 // The families of victims of a mass shooting at a central Kansas business in 2016 have won a $2 million legal settlement from a pawn shop that sold the firearms to the shooter’s girlfriend.The settlement of three...

Gun Maker Remington to Appeal Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Ruling to Supreme Court

Apr 10 2019 // Having failed in Connecticut state court to block all claims brought by families of children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, gun manufacturer Remington Arms Co. has signaled it will appeal its case to...

Conn. High Court Rules Gun Maker Can Be Sued Over Marketing

Apr 1 2019 // Gun-maker Remington can be sued over how it marketed the rifle used to kill 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, a divided Connecticut Supreme Court ruled on March 14.Gun control advocates...

New Jersey Sues California Company Over ‘Ghost Guns’

Mar 25 2019 // New Jersey’s attorney general announced a lawsuit Friday against a California company that sells mail-order firearms parts that can be turned into working weapons, the first such action the state has taken since it...

Judge Grants NRA Bid to Question N.Y. Ex-Official Over Insurance Inquiry

Mar 21 2019 // The National Rifle Association won permission from a judge to question a former New York regulatory official under oath in a lawsuit claiming the state illegally discouraged banks and insurers from doing business with the...

Sandy Hook Families Can Sue Gunmaker Remington, Court Rules

Mar 15 2019 // The gun industry suffered a stinging setback as Connecticut’s top court said families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre could move ahead with their lawsuit against Remington Arms Co. over...

Gun Retailer Sued by Families of Texas Church Shooting Victims

Mar 4 2019 // Family members of victims of a Texas church shooting are suing a sporting goods chain that sold the weapons used in the 2017 massacre. The lawsuit filed in state district court in San Antonio alleges Academy Sports &...

Insurer Hit With $102K Fine for Selling Illegal NRA-Branded Policies

Mar 4 2019 // Illinois Union Insurance Co. has paid a $102,000 fine after Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler ordered the company to cease underwriting self-defense policies branded by the National Rifle Association.After an...

Insurer Hit With $102K Fine for Selling Illegal NRA-Branded Policies

Feb 20 2019 // Illinois Union Insurance Co. has paid a $102,000 fine after Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler ordered the company to cease underwriting self-defense policies branded by the National Rifle Association.After an...

Texas Indoor Gun Range Cited for Lead Exposure, Fined $214K

Feb 14 2019 // An indoor gun range in Killeen, Texas, has been cited and fined more than $214,000 for exposing employees to unsafe levels of lead, federal safety regulators said.The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety...